Re: AMC: So sick of this baby trauma cliche

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:08:26 -0400, mart wrote
(in article <1185804506.776478.113630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

On Jul 30, 3:31 am, Robin Coutellier <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Did anything happen to Little Phillip (who later changed his name to
Charlie)? I'm talking about the baby Tara had way back in the early
70s.
Not as an infant, but there was an extensive story line about Little
Phillip's asthma problems, with Tara trying to learn more about the
disease and showing the real-life situations faced by families of kids
who live with illness. Back in the days when "real life" was
considered in story lines, and the show tried to explore characters
in on a real-life basis. Now it's just so over-the-top "fantasy"
lives, it has little relation to RL.

It's almost as if the writers think there's not enough drama in
everyday lives. Let's see some characters who have RL issues...someone
obese dealing with health issues related to that, smokers trying to
quit, some child who is less-than-perfect and how the family
struggles. Lily is a good example of a family dealing with a
disability, but she's hardly typical -- most families don't have such
rich resources (not just money, but education, and also the luxury of
dealing with the disease in 10-minute on-camera increments, not day-in
and day-out!) ("Quick! The UPS man is coming to the door with a red
box! Head him off before Lily sees it and we spend all afternoon
trying to calm her down again! I have other things I need to do
today!") <<

It's a good point. Remember Nina's diabetes? She had, as I recall, Type 1
(what they used to call "juvenile diabetes"), but with so many people with
weight problems in this country, and diabetes a near epidemic (I think
something like one in twelve people in the US are diabetic), it would be
_great_ to address both of those issues at once, and an opportunity to cast
an actress who won't make us scream at our tvs, "Have a sandwich!!" But I
can't imagine the current Frons-headed regime to return to the great,
reality-based storytelling that AMC used to feature so beautifully, much less
to cast an actress who wears bigger than a size 2. :-(

Aisling
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again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." - George
W. Bush, May 24, 2005

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